can we help
+44(0)1983 296060
+1 757-788-8872
tell me moreJoin a rally

Menu

Purrr-fect - Leg 2-day 4: Not a straight line



Today Dave did intense research on "the great circle route", which basically says that when it comes to navigating long distances, the curvature of the earth makes the shortest distance a CURVED LINE. We discovered that our IPad Navionics chart app draws a simple straight line which isn't the shortest one!
So Dave worked several hours on our Imray chart and on his laptop MaxSea program to get the latitude and longitude coordinates for a great circle route. These have now been entered into our iPad Navionics and we will be attempting to track to them. I say "attempting" because the wind is dead behind us when we aim for these waypoints, and the wind isn't strong enough to move the boat. So we are gybing downwind, steering about 30 degrees to port or starboard to keep moving. More wind is predicted in the next few days, so we can only hope that is so.
Today's culinary highlight was pineapple upside cake made with some of the fresh pineapple cut up several days ago.

Previous | Next